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Does thinking about food keep you from accomplishing your goals?<\/h2>

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Do you feel uncomfortable in your body even when others tell you that you look great?<\/p>

Does a cycle of binge eating leave you feeling sad and remorseful?<\/p>

The national eating disorders association estimates that 20 million American women and 10 million American men will struggle with an eating disorder at some point. But you don\u2019t have to let food and negative body image control your life. At SMPsychotherapy and counseling services, many providers have experience working with people healing from eating disorders.<\/p>

What Is an Eating Disorder?<\/h3>

An eating disorder is a mental health and behavioral condition involving severely disturbed eating behaviors and problematic thought patterns and emotions about food and body image. Eating disorders can involve unhealthy dieting, binge eating patterns, and obsessive thoughts about body size and shape. These disorders can affect people of any age, race, gender, socioeconomic group, and body weight. Eating disorders often begin during adolescence. Left untreated, eating disorders can impact physical, psychological, health, and social relationships.<\/p>

Types of Eating Disorders<\/h2>

The National Eating Disorders Association<\/a> recognizes eleven eating disorders. The symptoms are different, but each involves rumination about eating habits, disordered eating, exercise habits, or body size. Eating disorders are life-threatening mental illnesses, and treatment can save the lives of those suffering. Eating disorders include<\/p>

  1. Anorexia Nervosa – A disorder involving restrictive eating that causes excessive weight loss or a lack of weight gain in children. People with anorexia often have a distorted body image.<\/li>
  2. Bulimia Nervosa – A disorder with cycles of binge eating followed by attempts to purge the food consumed.<\/li>
  3. Binge Eating Disorder – A disorder causing people to eat excessive food and feel out of control. After a binge, many sufferers feel remorse or shame but don\u2019t try to purge the food they consume.<\/li>
  4. Orthorexia – A preoccupation with healthy or \u201cclean\u201d eating.<\/li>
  5. Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED) – A disorder where people have symptoms of more than one eating disorder or don\u2019t fit all the criteria of anorexia or bulimia. These people are still at risk for life-threatening medical problems.<\/li>
  6. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) – Sufferers of ARFID limit the type or amount of food they eat to a point where they aren\u2019t receiving adequate nutrition. There isn\u2019t a fear of increasing body weight as with other eating disorders. Many people with ARFID have Autism Spectrum Disorders.<\/li>
  7. Pica – This is an eating disorder where people eat items that are not food, such as hair, fabric, or glue.<\/li>
  8. Rumination Disorder – People with rumination disorder regurgitate food, re-chew it, re-swallow it, or spit it out. They are not regurgitating in response to stress, nor are they disgusted.<\/li>
  9. Unspecified Feeding or Eating Disorder (UFED) – These eating disorders cause significant stress for the sufferer but don\u2019t contain every component of the other eating disorders.<\/li>
  10. Laxative Abuse – People who abuse laxatives to control weight.<\/li>
  11. Compulsive Exercise – Intense exercise interferes with a person\u2019s life. People with this disorder often have obsessive thinking patterns about healthy weight and fear obesity.<\/li><\/ol>

    Symptoms of Eating Disorders<\/h3>

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